There seems to be some serious police bungling in the case of the rape of a woman on the premises of Sion hospital on Sunday. Questions are being raised over why the 31-year-old man, identified as Deepak Kunchikurve was granted judicial custody. A highly-placed police source has also asked why there was no medical test conducted on him and why did he not have an advocate representing him in court on Sunday.

The source told mid-day, "There was no advocate on behalf of the accused at Bhoiwada court, and no medical test was conducted on him, yet he was sent to judicial custody. We don't know how. Cops have now applied before the magistrate for custody of him in order to get a medical test done on him and to interrogate him. When DCP (Zone 4) Dr Saurabh Tripathi was asked about this incident, he neither replied to messages nor answered repeated calls.